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February 2025, new publication on statstics anxiety, student satisfaction and teaching political science methods accepted at Politische Vierteljahresschrift (with Paul Vierus, Jonas Elis, Conrad Ziller, Jan Karem Höhne)

January 2025 New Publication "Integration in the Host Country, Mean Political Interest and Focus Shift towards Host Country Politics: Patterns of Transnational Political Interest among Germans from Turkey" in Political Studies, Open Access, with Jonas Elis, Sabrina J. Mayer and Dennis C. Spies

October 2024 Our new German-language BA course Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) is launching. Why should you study in Duisburg-Essen? Great, large institutes with much on offer, affordable housing and a PPE team that cares.

All 30 spots full. Abitur of 2.1 or better needed to get in. Great first cohort.

October 2024: the working group of empirical political science has signed off on a new diversity strategy to fight structural inequalities

October 2024: Conditional accept for a the paper on transnational political interest from Political Studies (with the late Dennis C. Spies, Sabrina J. Mayer, Jonas Elis)

24-27 September attending the tri-annual wizard tournament / …no wait: conference of the German Political Science Association, presenting three papers

September: new publication in German for the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation mit Mayer/Hoffmann & Diaz Garcia Politische Einstellungen und Präferenzen von Menschen mit familiärer Migrationsgeschichte in Deutschland

17 July acting as external examiner for a PhD viva at the University of Gießen

10 July presentation at the research colloquium of the department of sociology at the University of Münster

4-6 July attending EPSA Cologne and overseeing a panel "Do Left Voters Behave in a More Solidary Manner? Experimental Evidence from Austria and Germany"

02 July: online information day PPE Philosophy, Politics & Economics with online simulation exercise "Village People: we are founding a new village."

24-28 June attending the NOPSA international conference in Bergen

13-14 June attending a retreat by the North-West German Network of Conflict Studies hosted by Johannes Vüllers, Mülheim a.d.R.

11-12 June: I am attending the conference "Emotional Dynamics of (In)security and Politics" where I will co-present a new paper idea with Conrad Ziller "The Lost Souls of Liberal Democracy: Who wants to Destroy the Existing Political Order in Germany?"

22 May Introductory remarks and chair of a symposim on the future of the EU at a secondary school

17 May info day for Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Duisburg-Essen

14 May evening keynote "The false myths about politics in ageing democracies", international symposium “Liberal Democracies under Demographic Pressure: Insights from Germany and Japan” in Berlin from 14 May to 16 May 2024. Slides

02-03 May: Workshop participation and paper presentation on the Solidarity Game and the identity of others at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Cologne

SS 24 I am teaching a BA course on political elites in which students have to use a uni-provided account of ChatGPT to learn how to critically use generative AI.

April: article accepted open access at Electoral Studies about the Immigrant German Election Study I. More than 10 years ago, the late Dennis Spies and I started working on this, and he is no longer with us to see this in print (with Sabrina Mayer, Dennis Spies, Manuel Diaz Garcia and Jonas Elis)

April: I received the second full draft of one of my PhD students within three weeks. I find this immensely satisfying.

14-15 March attending a workshop "Experimental Research on ethnic diversity, discrimination, and pro-sociality in European societies" by Tamara Gutfleisch & Johanna Gereke at the MZES in Mannheim

23 February attending a workshop "Social constructions of target populations and their impact on political behaviour and public policy” by Isabelle Guinaudeau, Elisa Deiss-Helbig & Theres Matthieß in Konstanz

February article accepted open access at Frontiers in Political Science about how national models of solidarity could explain the public opinion and policy responses in Germany and the USA (with Mark Vail).

8-9 February Jakob Kemper, Markus Tepe and I will present the first version of a new paper availble online on how the identity of others influence costly solidarity behaviour, new evidence from a cool 2-wave survey with FORSA in Germany

31 January Jakob Kemper and I will solve the puzzle of why voters of left parties behave in a more solidary manner and behave differently in the solidarity interactions with others (departmental colloquium, Duisburg-Essen)

16 January I am giving a in-person presentation in Klagenfurt, Austria, on immigrant-origin voters during a campaign and processes of political integration!

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